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The Case for Enhanced National Business Dynamics Statistics and How to Get There
AmstatNews, the magazine of the American Statistical Association, recently published a piece by E.J. Reedy of the Kauffman Foundation on business dynamics in the national statistical system, “How the Statistics System Can Help Create Jobs.” Reedy makes the case for improved data on business finance operations and investments in innovation, especially at the regional and local level, as a means of helping policymakers to target job creation programs. Reedy discusses publicly available national business dynamics statistics, what data is needed moving forward, and leadership capacity among federal agencies for taking up this task.
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Bureau of Justice Statistics Releases Prisoner Recidivism Analysis Tool
The Bureau of Justice Statistics recently released its online Prisoner Recidivism Analysis Tool. The Tool is the first in a series of data analysis tools that will enable the public to explore the recidivism patterns of persons involved with the criminal justice system. Users can conduct customized analyses of the database, which includes the recidivism of prisoners released in 1994 and followed for a three-year period after release. Other attributes include gender, age at release, race, Hispanic origin, commitment offense, sentence length, prior arrests, and prior commitments. The Bureau of Justice Statistics will update the tool in 2012 with new recidivism data on prisoners released in 2005.
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Notable Data Publications
Each week, the APDU Data Update identifies recent statistical data releases of interest to APDU members.
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Calls for Comment
APDU maintains a list of open calls for comment on proposed federal data collections (http://www.apdu.org/advocacy.asp). We periodically alert APDU members to newly added calls for comment. Over the last several weeks, calls for comment on the following proposed data collections were published in the Federal Register (with due date):
Bureau of Labor Statistics
- BLS Green Technologies and Practices Survey (April 4, 2011)
National Agricultural Statistics Service
- Generic Clearance to Conduct Survey Research Studies (April 8, 2011)
- Organic Production Survey (April 8, 2011)
Fish and Wildlife Service
- Migratory Bird Surveys (March 9, 2011)
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Disability Statistics From Surveys & Administrative Records
Thursday, February 17, 2011
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EST
Register here
Dr. Andrew J. Houtenville, Associate Professor of Economics and the Institute on Disability Research Director at the University of New Hampshire, will discuss the availability of public-release, restricted-release, and restricted-access survey and administrative data on the population of people with disabilities and participants in disability-related programs. He will discuss efforts to include a small core set of six disability-related questions in all major federal surveys as well as in some administrative records. In addition, he will discuss efforts to make access to linked administrative records more readily available for research purposes.
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